Art Talk

Discover 10 fun facts about Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory!

Did you know Dalí would attempt to enter a meditative state of self-induced psychotic hallucinations so that he could make what he called "hand-painted dream photographs”?

Read the other nine facts in the full article! 

Things you never knew you didn't know about Piet Mondrian! 

He was a contributor to the De Stijl (The Style) art movement and group, which he co-founded with Theo van Doesburg. Also known as Neoplasticism , this Dutch art movement advocated pure abstraction by a reduction to the essentials of form and color. 

Discover six other facts about his life in this blog article. 

Did you know there would have been no water lilies if Monet had obeyed the local authorities? Monet imported the plants from Egypt and South America. The city council demanded he uproot the plants in fears they would poison the area’s water. But Monet ignored them.

Read more about the fantastic life of Claude Monet in this article!

Did you know Frida had an affair with Soviet Leader Leon Trotsky? She would later be interrogated after his assassination in Coyoacán in 1940. She was suspected of being involved in his killing.

Read more facts about the extraordinary life of Frida Kahlo in this article. 

Did you know Klimt's work was highly criticized up to a critical point in his career? His work was derided as “pornography” and “perverted excess”, which hurt his reputation.

Discover what turned his career around in this article! 

Hokusai's Great Wave is arguably the most well know artwork from Japanese Culture. But did you know it's actually a print series, not a painting? Because it is a woodblock print, there are lots of Great Waves to go around. Prints can be found in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the British Museum of London, the Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA of Los Angeles, and Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria. 

Read more about The Great Wave in this article!

Discover 6 crazy facts about Edvard Munch’s most famous painting! Did you know there are actually four versions of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s famous piece: a pastel and a painted version created in 1893, followed by another pastel version two years later and finally, a version using tempera paint (a medium usually consisting of coloured pigments and a binding agent, such as egg yolk) in 1910.

Read the full article if you want to know the five other crazy facts!

Researchers have determined that the planet Venus was visible at dawn in Provence in the spring of 1889, and was at that time nearly as bright as possible. The brightest "star" in the painting, just to the viewer's right of the cypress tree, is actually Venus.

Discover more about Van Gogh's famous painting in this article!

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